Proof we can’t trust The Media – US uses WMD’s (Part 1)

So we go to Iraq, to remove WMD’s. Hussein was hung for using chemical weapons, against his own people (that he was ruling). So we don’t find any WMD’s, but we use them on the Iraqi’s? Since we are ruling them, how does this differ from Hussein’s charges? “We” used chemical White Phosphorus, and napalm, as weapons, on civilians in Iraq. Maybe we still are using them? Each material has specific tactical uses, and are not supposed to be used on civilian targets as weapons.

The 1980 Protocol III of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons deals specifically with the Use of Incendiary Weapons, and their use against civilians.

The United States is above this Protocol.

Napalm not to be used on civilian targets, according to an analysis by the US Department of Defense’s office for Arms Control Implementation and Compliance: “incendiary weapons have significant potential military value, particularly with respect to certain high-priority military targets. Incendiaries are the only weapons which can effectively destroy certain counter-proliferation targets such as biological weapons facilities which require high heat to eliminate bio-toxins. To use only high explosives would risk the widespread relase of dangerous contaminants with potentially disastrous consequences for the civilian population. Certain flammable military targets are also more readily destroyed by incendiaries. For example, a fuel depot could require up to eight times the bombs and sorties to destroy using only high explosives rather than incendiaries. Such an increase means a significantly greater humanitarian risk of collateral damage. The United States must retain its ability to employ incendiaries to hold high-high priority military targets such as these at risk in a manner consistent with the principle of proportionality which governs the use of all weapons under existing law.”

So then why did we chemical-bomb the city of Fallujah, and other targets with it?

“Despite persistent rumors of injuries among Iraqis consistent with the use of incendiary weapons such as napalm” the Pentagon insisted that “US forces had not used a new generation of incendiary weapons, codenamed MK77, in Iraq.” (UK Independent)

“The United States have confirmed to us that they have not used Mark 77 firebombs, which are essentially napalm canisters, in Iraq at any time. No other Coalition member has Mark 77 firebombs in their inventory.” (Adam Ingram(UK Minister of State (Armed Forces), Ministry of Defence) Hansard source, 11 January 2005)

MK-77 Fire bombs are NOT Napalm and have absolutely no connection to Napalm. Napalm is a corrosive chemical mixture and MK-77’s are filled with standard diesel fuel or jet fuel and a filler that turns it to gel. This allows the mixture to stick to it’s target while the fuel burns.